Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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1 It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma .
2 And he changed them so that you get , so they 're having one course in and
3 So anyway have a look at page fifty six cos I promised you yesterday that I would take you through the verb if you were you know the things you would want to know about .
4 Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon .
5 As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out .
6 We fixed it so that we arrived at lunchtime and joined my parents in a restaurant near their hotel .
7 They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song .
8 I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car .
9 For some months the engineers tried to obstruct and by-pass Smith , until Hacking told them firmly that there must be a considerable change of heart by all concerned to work together .
10 Glad of the diversion , I said , ‘ Someone told me today that the bad weather was caused by all the cannon-balls discharged on the Field of Waterloo last year . ’
11 A few seconds later we were plunging thought atmosphere , and Posi told me cheerfully that one of the in-phase ceptors had locked on to Mala 's position .
12 Kalchu told me later that the butchering and apportioning of meat strictly follows precedent .
13 In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before .
14 ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me .
15 He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party .
16 A Munich brewer told me derisively that Weissbier was a local term from Swabia ( to the west ) .
17 In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long .
18 People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city .
19 The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them .
20 Someone told me afterwards that when I went like that
21 ‘ You never told me before that you did n't like my company , Catherine ! ’ cried Heathcliff .
22 A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ !
23 A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ?
24 Yet a taxi driver told me recently that more money should be spent on Aids than on dementia because more people would die from it .
25 A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian .
26 McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up .
27 and I did hear , somebody told me like that the reason erm house prices shot up , you went three times as a a as high in value in what a matter of moments
28 " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton .
29 A member of my staff for instance , trying to report sickness absence , told me yesterday that she dialled our number and had to wait more than four minutes before being answered .
30 You told me yesterday that you hated the idea of marriage because you could n't stand jealous , possessive men . ’
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